Katana VentraIP

Leo VI the Wise

Leo VI, also known as Leo the Wise (Greek: Λέων ὁ Σοφός, romanized: Léōn ho Sophós, 19 September 866 – 11 May 912), was Byzantine Emperor from 886 to 912. The second ruler of the Macedonian dynasty (although his parentage is unclear), he was very well read, leading to his epithet. During his reign, the renaissance of letters, begun by his predecessor Basil I, continued; but the empire also saw several military defeats in the Balkans against Bulgaria and against the Arabs in Sicily and the Aegean. His reign also witnessed the formal discontinuation of several ancient Roman institutions, such as the separate office of Roman consul.

Leo VI

29 August 886 – 11 May 912

6 January 870[1]

Basil I

Alexander

19 September 866
Constantinople

11 May 912(912-05-11) (aged 45)
Constantinople

Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople

by Theophano
Eudokia
by Zoe Zaoutzaina
Anna
by Eudokia
Basil
by Zoe Karbonopsina
Anna
Constantine VII

Macedonian

Eudokia Ingerina

Greek Orthodox

Eudokia, who died in 892.

[43]

By his first wife, Theophano Martinakia, Leo VI had one daughter:


By his second wife, Zoe Zaoutzaina, Leo had one daughter:


By his third wife, Eudokia Baïana, Leo had one son:


By his fourth wife, Zoe Karbonopsina, Leo had two children:[40]

List of Byzantine emperors

(1963). The Armenians in the Byzantine Empire. Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Armenian Library. OCLC 17186882.

Charanis, Peter

(1853). History of the Byzantine Empire from 716–1057. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.

Finlay, George

(2005). A History of Byzantium. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 0-6312-3512-4.

Gregory, Timothy E.

, ed. (1991). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.

Kazhdan, Alexander

Leo the Wise (1863). [Novel Constitutions]. In Migne, Jacques-Paul (ed.). Patrologia Graeca (in Latin and Greek). Vol. 107. Paris. pp. 419–660.

"Tu sophōtatu Basileōs Leontos ta heuriskomena panta: nunc primum in unum corpus collecta"

Norwich, John Julius (1993), Byzantium: The Apogee, London: Penguin,  0-1401-1448-3

ISBN

Treadgold, Warren (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford University Press,  0-8047-2630-2

ISBN

Tougher, Shaun (1997), The Reign of Leo VI (886–912): Politics and People, Leiden; New York; Köln: Brill,  9-0041-0811-4, OL 675877M

ISBN

French translations of a Turkish-language compendium of divinatory works, including some ascribed to Leo the Sage available at .

[1]

Greek text with Migne's Latin translation of Leo's works at

[2]

The Mosaic of Leo VI in the Narthex of Hagia Sophia

Digitalized manuscripts of Leo VI the Wise at the Princeton University Library